Mossy Cottage Knits

Last night I gave my Dulaan items a bath in lukewarm water and hair conditioner (Herbal Essences from Clairol comes highly recommended by some of my knitting friends).

The 12 items are drying as we speak and I'll bring them for you tonight!

Come on TMK. We know you can come up with more than just turning on a printer with those toes. I have freakishly long toes and once I even managed to play the piano with them. And not too terribly, either, I might add.

I love the doggie pics. I'm so sad I didn't get to MEET Frankie yet...you must have another garden party! And I'll cross my fingers nothing horrible happens again to prevent me from coming.

pics tomorrow for you to see, but I posted a box with 21 items in it (18 of them knitted) very happy. and very pleased. go dulaan!!!

Okay, I'll bite, Sam. I'll tell you something about TMK's toes that Really Freaks Me Out. She can *cross* them. You know, like people cross their fingers? Urk.

Of course, maybe my bias comes from the fact that I can't move my toes at all. I mean I can flex them up and down and spread 'em like a normal person, but CROSS them, like FINGERS?! Again, urk.

Ok, the puppies are tooooo kyute. I lurv me some cute doggie photos. But how can you not love a doggie with a widow's peak?? Count Rico, I presume...

On the toe front, mine are so short I can't pick anything up with them and they don't bend so much as just fold over. you can't even tell I have joints in my toes. So very sad.

Oh, and chicken coats? Very disturbing. Seriously. O.o

Hope everyone has a great day!

I know somebody who can keep time with his big toe. He is a musician, and his big toe, and only his big toe, moves up and down in time to the music, independently of all of his other toes, which just sit there quiet as can be on the floor. I have tried and tried, and no matter what, all of my toes move when I move my big toe. So let's just say that when I am enjoying some nice bluegrass, my whole foot is moving!

Haha, I now have a very entertaining image in my mind of you with pompoms and a little pleated skirt. ;-)

I've just learned to knit and will not be able to get anything done for the Dulaan Project 2005, but will the project start anew for 2006? I do hope so!

We're *knitters*... Right?

http://chickenssuit.com/english/chick_on_the_catwalk/gallery_group/2/gallery_show/25/cHash/94ef8f3077/

Wanna hear something scary? I can cross my toes too ;-) It usually freaks people out....I've always thought it was normal until someone almost jumped out of their skin when they saw it.

They're great for when you don't want to bend over, eh TMK?

Sam,

This is a skill I taught myself in high school. When a friend had to have back surgery and couldn't bend for a year, the group I hung out with all taught ourselves to pick stuff up with our feet so my friend wouldn't feel so weird. When I had my back injury I discovered it was a great skill to have. To this day, if I get a rock in my sandal I just kick it off, grab it with my toes and give it a shake. Rock falls out, I put my shoe back on and go back to what I was doing without ever bending over!

TMK

TMK did just confess to me that, with this technique, sometimes her sandal ends up on the opposite side of the garden. That being said, if *I* tried this, at least one of my toes would become dislocated. Don't ask me how I know.

TMK, how far does this skill go? I can cross my second toes over my big toes, and they're pretty dextrous together. Can you do more'n that? I've never even thought of it as unusual. Everyone in my birth family, I think, does it....except my brother, who has those two toes webbed together, a bit.

Norma's brother, now forever known as DuckBoy.

Well, Norma. I can cross my big toe over my second toe or the other way around. I can also spread all my toes apart and wiggle them. This really freaks Ryan out. My favorite way to sit when I'm barefoot is with my toes folded under the rest of my foot. And I can pick up various things that may fall on the floor--including the remote for the TV. The only thing I absolutely can't seem to pick up with my toes is soap. (My friend who had the back surgery did master this--out of necessity.) TMK

Ryan, shhhhhh, don't be mean!

TMK, I can do all that. And I checked: My daughter can, too. Hubby, not so much.

Wow, Ryan, just LOOK at the probing questions you stimulate with your blog....the important issues....the world needs you!

That chicken was just plain disturbing!

Adorable dogs though. Who else can protect us from vicious plastic objects?

wondering how you missed this one on your 'animal knits' wanderings ;o)

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15555259%2
55E421,00.html

(no i didn't find it...ended up in my mailbox lol)

*thinks some people have way too much time on their hands and not enough WIPs/stash ;o)*

The fish blanket is pretty darn cool, I must say. And this is coming from someone who isn't much into animal-themed projects.

Re: toes. I can cross mine too. Are the toe crossers out there of the second-toe-is-the-longest flavor of humans? Just curious. My sister and I, who inherited the 2nd toe thing from my mother, can both cross our toes (as can our mother). My dad has been deprived of the ability to perform this oh-so-useful parlor trick.

TMK: I can pick up dropped soap, but only if the bar is about half gone--it's too big otherwise. Never had back problems, I'm just lazy!

Dear Ryan,

I mailed my box (with 13 items) to F.I.R.E. yesterday and hope it arrives before July 1st.

Best regards,

Beate from Frankfurt/Germany

one of my earliest memeories is sitting in my crib, feet out through the bars (yeah, I'm so old that the bars were far enough apart for me to do that), picking pencils up off the floor with my toes.

Dulaan...box in the car to take to post office, 14 knitted items (3 comercial, 11 by me) and 18 best quality cloth diapers as requested on the F.I.R.E. site. Don't know that that qualifies as 30 items for purposes of our tally, so I will only claim 11.

delurking a bit to wonder:

Does no one else find it horribly creepy that the chickens might have to wear little vinyl suits advertising KFC??

[shudder]

I also have some Dulaan stuff to get in the mail. This weekend is my totally last chance to knit up some more goodies to include then it is going in the mail on Monday!

Chelsea, I find the whole chicken outfit thing creepy. Yep, you picked the right word. Creepy. I'm not weirded out by people putting little coats on their dogs--although we don't do it--but I am weirded out by people putting little coats on chickens. Go figure.

And I know how you feel about the Dulaan stuff. My current count, including the vest that needs button, the MegaUltraBulkyChunky hat I started last night, the things I knit last year but don't wear so I added them to my pile, my fleece blanket and TMK's fleece blanket? 19. Not 20. 19. Phooey.

Ryan, you could do one of those super-easy, super-fast neckwarmers a la Yours Truly, in an evening, and then it could be 20. Or you could be satisfied with what the heckuvalottastuff you've already done.

In my heart of hearts I know it's a lot of stuff, Norma. But what kind of a number is 19?!!